As of 2025, the distances these spacecraft have travelled are staggering. Voyager 1, at 166,40 astronomical units (about 24,9 billion km from earth), is the most distant by a human made object ever.

Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), a system of radio telescopes in Chile, the team detected ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of a mysterious planet lurking far beyond Neptune, a world several times ...

Explore the finely tuned conditions that make Earth uniquely habitable among planets, supporting diverse life through complex ...

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

In New York City, outer Brooklyn and outer Queens might as well be in different universes from each other. The city has a ...

At high doses, cosmic rays can tear through DNA molecules and damage biological tissue. Prolonged exposure to cosmic ...